“Keep your soul free. What matters most in life is not knowledge, but character … There is a knowledge other than that which is of the domain of memory: the knowledge of how to live. Study must be an act of life, must serve life, must feel itself impregnated with life. Of the two kinds of men, those who endeavor to know something, and those who try to be someone, the palm is to the second. What we know is like a beginning, a rough sketch only; the man is the finished work.” SoulCharacterWorkKnowledgeStudyMan Book:The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
“What wisdom and what virtue there is in judging oneself truly and in remaining oneself! You have a part that only you can play; and your business is to play it to perfection, instead of trying to force fortune. Our lives are not interchangeable. Equally by aiming too high and by falling too low, one misses the path to the goal. Go straight ahead, in your own way, with God for guide.” StudyHumilityVocationPrudenceTemperanceLimitationsStudiousness Book:The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods Source: The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
